Romans 9:3
9:3 For I could wish
that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people,
my fellow countrymen,
Acts 22:3
22:3 “I am a Jew,
born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up
in this city, educated with strictness
under
Gamaliel
according to the law of our ancestors,
and was
zealous
for God just as all of you are today.
Acts 26:4
26:4 Now all the Jews know the way I lived
from my youth, spending my life from the beginning among my own people
and in Jerusalem.
Acts 26:2
26:2 “Regarding all the things I have been accused of by the Jews, King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate that I am about to make my defense before you today,
Colossians 1:22
1:22 but now he has reconciled you
by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –
Philippians 3:5
3:5 I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee.